FILM

Aurora Picture Show presents Extremely Shorts 14- the Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Friday, June 17, 8PM, and Saturday June 18, 3PM and 5PM (Picnic follows at 6:30PM). Location: Molly Gochman's Studio, 2442 Bartlett Street. Juror Brent Hoff from Wolphin DVD in attendance.

These films under three minutes in length may be short on time, but they are rich in passion and ideas. Come see what our 2011 Juror, Brent Hoff, selected from the amazing submissions of animated, experimental, narrative, and documentary short films. Cast your vote for your favorite film and support the filmmakers of this year’s Extremely Shorts. The awards will be given out at the annual picnic with a menu from Saint Arnold Brewery, Ruggles Green and other Houston favorites followed by the time-honored karaoke tradition.

Brent Hoff is the editor and co-founder of Wholphin DVD where he films drunk bees, crying competitions, and illegal trans-border volleyball matches. Before that he authored Mapping Epidemics, a book on pandemic disease transmission, made TV at The Daily Show, VH1, and Nickelodeon, and wrote articles about squid. He has four feature film scripts in pre-production including one on the Last days of Old Dirty Bastard. He hopes one of them actually gets made someday.

Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney’s, lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes do it.